Handle or drawer-pull.



PATENTED JULY 14,-- 1908.

J. ASSEL. HANDLE 0R DRAWER PULL. APPLICATION FILED MAR. 25, 1908.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JACOB ASSEL, OF BRIDGEPORT, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR TO THE BURNS, SILVER &CO.

OF BRIDGEPORT, CONNECTICUT, A CORPORATION OF CONNECTICUT.

HANDLE OR DRAWER-PULL.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed March 25, 1908.

Patented July 14, 1908.

Serial No. 423,140.

'Pulls; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, andexact description of the invention, such as Will enable others skilledin the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to handles or drawer pulls, such as are secured inosition on the drawers or doors of articles 0 furniture and are thenequipped with suitable handle devices.

More particularly myimprovement relates to that class of such trimmingsin which a head and escutcheon plate are used in connection with athreaded shank which latter is assembled inside the head and escutcheonin such manner as to be wholly concealed, the device being secured inposition on an article of furniture by means of any suitable nut orsimilar device driven on the threaded portion of such shank.

In the accompanying drawin Figure 1 is a front elevation of thepreferred style of my improvementFig. 2 a sectional elevation Fig. 3 arear elevation of the same-Fig. 4 a rear elevation of a modified form ofmy improvementFig. 5 a front elevation showing my improvement incompleted form with a bail handle attached for use in connection with anordinary face plate, and Fig. 6 a sectional elevation of anothermodification of my improvement.

Similar numbers of reference denote like parts in the several figures ofthe drawing.

1 is the head and 2 the escutcheon plate of my improved trimming, whichare preferably made integral.

3 is the shank which is threaded at its lower end and is provided at itsupper end with any suitable head 4.

5 is a late which is secured in position against t e bottom of theescutcheon by bending the outer edge of the escutcheon beneath theperiphery of said late as shown at a, which plate is perforate at itscenter as shown at 6 and has diametrically opposite notches 7 in theside walls of this perforation through which perforation the shank 3 isinserted before the securing of the plate to the escutcheon, the head 4of the shank resting against the plate 5 while fins 8 immediately belowsaid head extend within said notches. I prefer to have these fins 8 fitloosely within the notches 7 in order that the shank may have a slightrocking movement so that the trimming may readily adjust itself toirregular surfaces of articles to which it is to be secured, but I donot wish to be limited in this respect since it of course will beobvious that the shank may be tightly fitted to this-plate 5.

Instead of closing in the plate 5 at the periphery of the escutcheonsmall spurs 9 may be formed integral with the escutcheon and bentbeneath this plate as shown at Fig. 4, in which instance the plate 5would of course be made considerably smaller.

The head 1 is perforated as shown at 10 in order to provide for theinsertion of the ends of the usual bail handle 11, and in Fig. 5 I haveshown my improved trimming as it appears when such handle is properlysecured thereto.

In the construction shown at Fig. 5 where a large face plate 12 is used,the head and escutcheon can be formed integral with the face plate bystamping or casting, and the bottom plate 5 can be secured after theman-v ner shown at Fig. 4.

It is immaterial whether a solid externally threaded shank is used orwhether I employ a tubular shank threaded internally, and I havetherefore shown at Fig. 6 a tubular shank 13 which is internallythreaded and is secured on the end of the threaded shank 3 whereby thetrimming may be secured in position by means of an ordinary headed screwdriven within the shank, and in this view I have likewise shown theperforations on diametrically o posite sides of the head 1 so that anyor inary ull such as a ring pull (shown in dotted ines) may be used.

therefore do not wish to be limited to any Patent is 1. A handle ordrawer pull, comprising an integral head and escutcheon, a perforatedplate secured to the bottom of the eseutcheon y means of portions cutfrom the latter at intervals and bent against the bottom of said plate,and a threaded shank provided with a ead and inserted through saidperforation.

2. A handle or drawer pull comprising an integral head and escutcheon, aplate centrally perforated and having notches leading into saidperforation and secured to the bot tom of said escutcheon by bendingportions I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters 1 of the latterbeneath the bottom of said plate, 5

' and a threaded shank having at its upper end a head and provided withfins immediately beneath said head, said shank extending through theperforation 1n the plate with its head resting upon the latter and withthe 20 fins extending within said notches.

In testimony whereof I afliX my signature in presence of two witnesses.

JACOB ASSEL.

Witnesses F. W. Snrrn, J12, M. T. LONGDEN.

